HD7970 Quadfire Eyefinity Review
Introduction
Published: 9th January 2012 | Source: AMD | Price: £1600 |
Introduction
Picture the scene if you will. Your lucky numbers have just come up on the Euro Millions. Your Fortune Cookie had the correct numbers in it. You've just discovered that your recently deceased great Uncle left everything to you, and he was the head of ICI.
Suddenly you're flush with cash and trying to work out what would be best to spend it on. Maybe your eye has been caught by the incredible results we've been getting from the new HD7970. So you splurge out on the very best system money can buy. The creme de la creme.
Thankfully, before you have to make such an outlay, we are here to let you know what you'll be getting for your hard earned.
This is all about gigantic numbers. And a pretty hefty power draw. Plus enough heat to cause premature global warming.
Of course it's worth pointing out straight away that such extreme setups are unlikely to see big results in gaming tests, because games just aren't designed to have this many graphics cards beneath them. Benchmarks are where it's at. However we're going to run the games just to see if any of them happily take advantage of a Quad GPU set up.
Welcome, to the HD7970 Quadfire review.
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awesome cards and awesome review(s) tom, cant wait to get one hopefully they will drop a bit by march/april 
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Nice for a world record beater probs under D-ice how ever completely pointless except for willy waving people. Chances of selling such set ups to people with no brains in this environment is slim. Still doesn't make up for the mess up in the CPU scene though.
you probably be able to heat up your whole home with the ammount of heat they will pump out to..Quote
you probably be able to heat up your whole home with the ammount of heat they will pump out to..Quote
There are cheaper ways to heat a room, however none quite as impressive.Quote
hmmm - seems that amd may have redeemed themselves a little after BDQuote
Do you think we should be afraid that studios are going to produce games that can only be run on specific brand of GPU's? Xbox or PS3 exclusives come to my mind... Of course, one can have both PS3 and an Xbox but owning two gaming rigs gets problematic.Quote
Epic results. 
Would be interesting to see this done again when the drivers have matured a bit to see how much of a difference there is. Even if some of it is to do with the game there should still be an increase in performance with better drivers, it's always the same with new cards especially AMD ones 2-3 drivers time and things should improve a bit.Quote
Would be interesting to see this done again when the drivers have matured a bit to see how much of a difference there is. Even if some of it is to do with the game there should still be an increase in performance with better drivers, it's always the same with new cards especially AMD ones 2-3 drivers time and things should improve a bit.Quote
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whhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttt????????? ???
just when i start to loose faith and think your starting to play favorites....(ie that aria giveaway vid)
you do something like this and TOTALLY restore my faith.....
thank you.....honestly
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just when i start to loose faith and think your starting to play favorites....(ie that aria giveaway vid)
you do something like this and TOTALLY restore my faith.....
thank you.....honestly
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tbh i think Tom hit the nail on the head with the review. The problems of hard ware manufacturer and game devs not talking is a massive problem. There is no single set standard and this is what causes issues and this is why the xbox , ps3, wii all work. You simply put in a game and it works.
Personally i think that such a set up is a complete waste of money as you can get a single card that yes maybe not as fast how ever gives close the the same results under game play.
What you need to think is, does all that horse power give any real extra benefit and the answer is no it does not. So why throw away good money. If you what a Powerful card then switch to professional card which has more grunt at doing video editing and such tasks.
Put this card up against the top pro cards and i bet it shows lacking in many departments. Lets see a review were you put this card up against say a Quadro and see what happens.Quote
Personally i think that such a set up is a complete waste of money as you can get a single card that yes maybe not as fast how ever gives close the the same results under game play.
What you need to think is, does all that horse power give any real extra benefit and the answer is no it does not. So why throw away good money. If you what a Powerful card then switch to professional card which has more grunt at doing video editing and such tasks.
Put this card up against the top pro cards and i bet it shows lacking in many departments. Lets see a review were you put this card up against say a Quadro and see what happens.Quote
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tbh i think Tom hit the nail on the head with the review. The problems of hard ware manufacturer and game devs not talking is a massive problem. There is no single set standard and this is what causes issues and this is why the xbox , ps3, wii all work. You simply put in a game and it works. Personally i think that such a set up is a complete waste of money as you can get a single card that yes maybe not as fast how ever gives close the the same results under game play. What you need to think is, does all that horse power give any real extra benefit and the answer is no it does not. So why throw away good money. If you what a Powerful card then switch to professional card which has more grunt at doing video editing and such tasks. Put this card up against the top pro cards and i bet it shows lacking in many departments. Lets see a review were you put this card up against say a Quadro and see what happens. |
To be fair I think this is pretty obvious that it's a waste of money for a set up like this and I doubt anyone here or anywhere else would consider buying 4 7970s.
This is just your typical OC3D madness and Tom doing it because he can and hey, why not, it's fun to see stuff like this and i'm sure Tom loves doing it too
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This is just your typical OC3D madness and Tom doing it because he can and hey, why not, it's fun to see stuff like this and i'm sure Tom loves doing it too
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What do you mean top pro cards. Do you think that these old gpu's made for video editing will beat any high end gaming card in games or 3d benchmarks? No they wont. And god damn stop stating the obvious that this is a waste of money. So annoying when you people repeat what tom already said a hundred times. |
Just wanted to thank Tom for doing this over the top set up. It may be pointless, "but that is the point" right. For most of us there is no way we are going to be able set something like this up and have a go at it. So thank you Tom for setting it up running all the tests and satisfying our collective geek curiosity.
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One more reason OC3D "ROCKS"Quote
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Yes, send them all to me and I'll make sure to break some world records...Quote
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Crysis 2 being the exception. Why isn't battlefield 3 there? On multiplayer Ultra settings it's a GPU killer.Quote
^^If you watched the video reviews you'd know that BF3 wouldn't work with 2 cards let alone 4, which is why you don't see it in the written reviews. Also the most demanding games are used, so it doesn't matter if they're over a year old. There's no point using a "newer" game when it is not as demanding or as good looking graphically as the games currently used in the reviews.Quote
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/22212/amd_radeon_hd_7970_quad_crossfirex_tested_battlefi eld_3_1080p_with_ultra_details_199fps_average/index.html they got quaud fire eyefinity to work on battlefield maybe they can sugguest something to you?Quote
I must Own!!!! I wonder how Swtor runs with those cards Quote
QuoteGotta say, I love seeing stuff like this. Yeah, it's highly unlikely that any of us would ever do this for a home gamer but it's still a joy to see tech done to the max like this. Same with cars, love seeing Porsche, Ferrari, Lambourghini etc. nutting it around tracks but not going to buy one - happy with my Impreza companioned with my Focus diesel lol.
Next week: Tom's testing FIVE cards for extreme ePeen, four in the rig and the fifth to stuff down his pants
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Next week: Tom's testing FIVE cards for extreme ePeen, four in the rig and the fifth to stuff down his pants
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What happened ? What forced you to use 2x AX1200 ? Did you mean 1 is not enough to power whole system 
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So what if money was no object? What if you want to break world records? Perhaps Quadfire HD7970s would be the ticket...
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